• Wed. August 20

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    Gawddam, what a lineup. Love Combat’s “first date of 3-day tour.” Ambitious run, real weekend warrior shit…

    : Wed. August 20
  • Dehydrogenase Gang

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    Pittsburgh Weekly Gazette, August 16, 1905

    : Dehydrogenase Gang
  • Djéliya

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    At some point a group of international film producers asked Jay if he would compose the score for Djéliya, mémoire du mandingue, the new film by Burkinabé director Boubacar Sangaré.

    : Djéliya
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    From the first to the fifteenth of August there was a heat wave, and two more victims were found. The first was thirteen-year-old Marina Rebolledo. Her body was discovered behind Secondary School 30, in Colonia Félix Gómez, a few yards from the state judicial police building. She was dark, long haired, slightly built, five foot…

    : August 15
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    Inasmuch as the term concept at present is taken to designate “properties, relations and similar entities… expressed in language by a designator of nonsentential form” and necessarily to involve “an analysis of the nature of a referent,” the term itself can serve most appropriately as the point of entry for a discussion in which I…

    : Milton Babble
  • Not Something I Ever Knew

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    Andrea senza errori, he was also called. What that means is that he never made a single mistake, when he was drawing.

    : Not Something I Ever Knew
  • They Shock Horses, Don’t They?

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    The first execution by electricity has been a horror. Physicians who might make a jest out of the dissecting room, officials who have seen many a man’s neck wrenched by the rope, surgeons who have lived in hospitals and knelt beside the dead and dying on bloody fields, held their breaths with a gasp, and…

    : They Shock Horses, Don’t They?
  • The Saints of Solana Beach

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    From Kathy Acker’s diaries, c. July—August 1972, while living in Solana Beach just before meeting Peter Gordon.

    : The Saints of Solana Beach
  • Reasonably Sure

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    Existence, or at least a minute part

    : Reasonably Sure
  • Drudgery Beneath a Fervid Sun

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    July 20th — A drive yesterday afternoon to a pond in the vicinity of Augusta, about nine miles off, to fish for white perch. Remarkables: the steering of the boat through the crooked, labyrinthine brook, into the open pond, — the man who acted as pilot, — his talking with B— about politics, the bank, the…

    : Drudgery Beneath a Fervid Sun

Thought:

“All of us understand the put-and-take of checking accounts, but few understand the careful accounts of deposits and withdrawals that nature keeps.”

Alfred Bester